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They might as well have gone with "Out Of The Trenches And Over The Top With You, Plebs"

I had a three-pack of this delivered from Amazon the other day. Literal sportswashing.

"The government has privately conceded there will be post-Brexit checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea, months after Boris Johnson insisted insisted there would be no such trade barriers." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/13/brexit-will-mean-checks-on-goods-crossing-irish-sea-government-admits

I hear the first question was "Why did CT pretend to have voted Labour in the 2017 general election?", so you're probably safer with us.

Yet six months after that post, you voted for the Corbyn cult in a general election. What changed?

And yet you voted for Labour under Corbyn, remember?

Why watch telly to see women being degraded when you could holiday in Dubai and see it for real? SAFETY WINK

Got lucky with Tenerife in that Norwegian offered either a refund or a voucher (subject to them not going bust, obviously), and Homeaway for the villa had a 50% + fees refund policy which is better than nothing, but I expect the other stuff to be vouchers. That's fine if it's effectively time-unlimited, but some operators seem to want you to rebook for a specific date already, which is surely a bit pointless given the current lack of clarity.

I'm no longer anticipating getting away at all this year but some of the refunds for things are coming in, which is handy. The Tenerife trip I should be on now, the villa is mostly refunded and the friend who booked it should get the rest on his travel insurance, plus the flight refund from Norwegian should come through now that they've been bailed out by the government. Waiting to see what the current policies are for Eurostar, Stena Line etc. by the time it comes to (presumably) having to cancel my July and August weekenders to the continent.

I actually quite like it but it's very much post-industrial, resolutely unspectacular, has no real public image despite its size, and its nearest airport is in Düsseldorf.

At least Gelsenkirchen is one of our twin towns and we've got a tradition of footballing exchange - not just friendly matches, but a delegation including the mayor came over for that England-Germany game that was Sir Bobby's last public appearance, and so on. Sunderland's German twin town is Essen. Essen's biggest club plays in red and white and is currently in the fourth tier. Sounds like a decent match if you ask me.

Fuck me, that Simply Red song that was meant to be the "anthem" for the tournament. You wouldn't play it at your dullest uncle's funeral.

Consumer debt is being repaid to a remarkable extent too, which you'd think has to be structurally healthy in the long term, even if it's shit news for the businesses not getting that money coming in.

Brilliant.

That's London for you

I'm fairly sure @sammynb owns Ironic Chipolata's debut album on signed vinyl

If you need government advice to do that...

Viral load is like calorie content, it's only problematic if you choose to believe in it

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It's quite clearly this, just like whatever Brexit ends up being will be the Brexit people voted for, even if they didn't